ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,353, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Toyota Research Institute Inc. (Los Altos, Calif.) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Systems and methods for reactively reorienting a moving vehicle" was invented by Hiroshi Yasuda (San Carlos, Calif.) and Andrea Michelle Rios Lazcano (Brussels).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods described herein relate to reactively reorienting a moving vehicle. In one embodiment, a reactive moving-vehicle reorientation system detects automatically, at an over-actuated vehicle, a predetermined situation while the over-actuated vehicle is traveling on a roadway. The system also controls a...